Background:
I have a FreeBSD firewall (4.2 RELEASE) with ipfilter installed on cable
modem. So the ip is dynamic at this moment, routable a.b.c.d. I also have
ipnat (NAT, PAT) piece running. During troubleshooting, I have the firewall
wide open (ie, pass in/out all). IDS is silenced as well.
This firewall is also doing reverse proxying / web publishing at this
moment. This firewall is using round robin to route to three internal web
servers (10.10.10.2, x3, x4). So every web request is routed to each
internal host alternately. I don’t need to worry about session state yet.
These three servers host identical pages that are mirrored, running on
Apache. Right now, the firewall is not intelligent enough to do the load
balancing yet (it’s only load sharing). But, plan to have the cluster with
JServ once the test is completed. I have two of the web servers disabled to
make things easy.
DNS is registerd with a.b.c.d nix.mydomain.com (actual host name, A record).
I have this CNAME as www.mydomain.com as well.
Plz part two for the problem definition